John Geiger says that many people who experience the Third Man explain it as a religious experience.

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John Geiger believes brain doctors and other scientists should study this interesting issue more fully.

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John Geiger points out that these Third Man experiences are very common among mountain climbers.

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And it was just a wonderful day." "I'm Ann Geiger from Tucson,Arizona.

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And we got out the good china." "Gordon Geiger from Tucson,Arizona.

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Geiger discusses several conditions that seem to produce Third Man experiences.

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The Canadian-American writer John Geiger wrote about this in a recent book called The Third Man Factor. The book will soon be published in several languages, including Chinese, Korean and Japanese.

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It doesnt matter whether they are at great elevation or at sea level. John Geiger suggests that the brains effort to create a Third Man is not an accident of human brain structure, or a sign of injury in extreme conditions.

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That seems to me to be a fairly out-there proposition. And yet, the evidence is so overwhelming, that really nobody has surfaced to suggest that indeed this does not happen. John Geiger says there is a wide acceptance of the Third Man experience among the scientific community and the general public.

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In other words, my experience I think predisposed me to being interested in the kind of phenomena that people in these extreme and unusual environments encounter. With Shackletons experience in mind, John Geiger started to investigate whether other people facing death or extreme fear had faced similar situations.

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